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...comment made by President Dmitry Medvedev is characteristic of his country’s current attitudes: he states that Russia is not afraid of “the prospect of a new Cold War.” This remark comes in the context of Russia’s recent conflict with Georgia and its threats to bomb proposed U.S. missile sites in Poland. These sites, which would be part of a missile defense system that the U.S. plans to install in Poland and the Czech Republic, would defend Europe against a possible threat from “rogue states...
Harvard and the privileged students who attend it are insulated from most global strife. Crises ranging from malaria in Africa, to conflict in the Middle East, to extreme poverty in the United States create hardly a breeze in the rarified air at the top of the Ivory Tower. Unlike the days of our parents’ generation, when a combination of American foreign policy and bad grades could send an Eliot resident off to Vietnam, in the post-draft era most Harvard students can be assured of a comfortable existence after graduation regardless of major political developments...
...Although many Russians with whom I spoke with in Moscow this summer viewed Mr. Saakashvilli as a war criminal, American pundits and politicians painted the conflict as indicative of a resurgent, aggressive Russia bent on undermining democratic aspirations throughout the former Soviet space and spitting in the face of American influence in the eastern hemisphere...
...Still, the McCain-Palin ticket has used this conflict to step up its vitriolic rhetoric. Mr. McCain wants to expel Russia from the G8 and reconsider further WTO accession talks. And both he and Ms. Palin are committed to expanding NATO to include Georgia and Ukraine. In her interview, Palin stated that the Rose Revolution in Georgia and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine “have showed us that those democratic nations, I believe, should be in NATO...
...According to a June poll conducted by the International Republican Institute, 71% of Pakistanis oppose Pakistan's cooperation with the U.S. against Islamist militants. For critics of the policy, it has always been "an American war" forced on an unwilling country, and they blame it for bringing the Afghan conflict over the border and encouraging a wave of terrorism in Pakistan's major cities...